Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 10

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 * 1627 – Dutch explorer Pieter Nuyts was appointed governor of Formosa (modern-day Taiwan) by the Dutch East India Company.
 * 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small force of Patriots led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured Fort Ticonderoga (depicted) in New York, without significant injury or incident.
 * 1940 – British prime minister Neville Chamberlain resigned and formally recommended Winston Churchill as his successor.
 * 1941 – World War II: German Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the British government.
 * 1997 – An earthquake registering 7.3 Mw struck near Qaen, Iran, killing at least 1,567 and leaving around 50,000 others homeless.
 * 1994 – American serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection for the murders of twelve teenage boys and young men in a series of killings committed between 1972 and 1978.
 * 2005 – Vladimir Arutyunian attempted to assassinate U.S. president George W. Bush and Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi using a hand grenade, which failed to detonate.
 * 2017 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces, assisted by the U.S. military, captured the Tabqa Dam and surrounding countryside, completing the Battle of Tabqa.
 * Born/died: | Ahmad ibn Tulun |d|884| Al-Aziz Billah |b|955| Theingapati |d|1299| Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll |d|1493| Anne Robert Jacques Turgot |b|1727| Johann Peter Hebel |b|1760| Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle |b|1760| Thomas Young |d|1829| Sri Yukteswar Giri |b|1855| Felix Manalo |b|1886| Miuccia Prada |b|1949| Lorenzo Bandini |d|1967| Joan Crawford |d|1977| Shen Congwen |d|1988